National News
Justice Department won’t charge officer who shot Jacob Blake. By Victoria Albert / CBS News
A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up. By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran / CNN
California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation. By Meryl Kornfield / Wash Post
New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
A Safe Space’: Black Pastors Promote Vaccinations from the Pulpit. By Liam Stack / NYT
Why white students are far more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities. By Olivia Sanchez / NBC News
One of the nation’s oldest Black churches unearthed in Virginia. By Ben Finley / USA Today
Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History. By Stephen G. Hall / AAIHS
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Biden becomes first president to mark day.
Senate Confirms Top Prosecutors for Manhattan and Brooklyn. By Matt Stieb / New York Magazine
How Latinos are growing and reshaping the United States. By Suzanne Gamboa and Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Study confirms pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos harder than Whites. By Maggie Fox / CNN
Federal judge rejects comparisons between Capitol insurrection and racial justice unrest. By Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN
California Governor Signs Law To Improve Outcomes For Black Birthing People And Babies. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
After years of inequity, it’s time to support historically black colleges. By Javaid Siddiqi / The Hill
George Floyd may be granted posthumous pardon in 2004 drug arrest. Juan A. Lozano / USA Today
Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $130 million in discrimination suit, which alleged racist epithets and hostile work environment. By Faiz Siddiqui / Wash Post
Henrietta Lacks Estate Sues Company Using Her ‘Stolen’ Cells. By Michael Kunzelman / HuffPost
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. By Joshua D. Rothman / The Conversation
Alabama spends more than a half-million dollars a year on a Confederate memorial. Black historical sites struggle to keep their doors open. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement. By Brandon K. Winford / AAIHS
Is Letitia James Running for Governor? Her Decision Is Coming Soon. By Katie Glueck / NYT
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms: ‘A lot of people only understand a portion of what it takes to govern.’ By Eric Easter / Wash Post
Black Residents of Minneapolis Say They Need More Cops—Not Fewer. By Ibrahim Hirsi / The Nation
Families of missing people of color say cases don’t get attention. By LI Cohen / CBS News
The Extra Stigma of Mental Illness for African-Americans. By Dana Givens / NYT
